Medgar Evers Quotes
I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.
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There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
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Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica.
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It's just hard to say, "Well, I do this, which means this." If I'm telling you exactly who I am, then there's nothing for the audience to say.
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I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.